I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3 with Actual Sabrina for a few weeks now. I've labeled this "playthrough 1/16": Her first playthrough, and my sixteenth. She's new to video games, and to the "Gygaxian" rules systems associated with both BG3 and D&D. To help her out, I pointed her to the "rules tangents" I included in some…
CW: Partial nudity. Kinda. I tried to keep it to the PG-13 level. Also, more Druid Angela stuff, as if you couldn't figure that out from the title. Big surprise! ... Not! If you've read along in this series of essays on creating Arctic Druid Angela in Baldur's Gate 3, as soon as I mentioned the possibility…
If the above exchange was completely cryptic to you, you probably haven't read any of my previous posts on an Arctic Druid build. If so, I suggest you at least skim them (enjoy the fanfic pictures!) starting from the first one. Frost If you read the fifth essay in this series, you're probably not surprised there's a…
Current build Seriously, I had no idea there would be a fifth essay in this series. I even joked about that last time. However, here we are! I'll restate my goal: I'm trying to create the best build I can given the role-playing picture I have of Druid Angela: an Arctic Druid, wielding two staffs, who might…
This post is a follow-up to my previous post on recreating the character of Arctic Druid Angela. If you're like Guard Wulf and are bored by system stuff, skip ahead to my next post, in which I tell a story using pictures. Originally I wrote this essay and the pictorial as a single post. It got a…
Warning If you're tired of my continual references to Arctic Druid Angela, well, too bad. This post is neither a culmination, catharsis, nor an intended ending to her story. On the other hand, if you're curious about what the fuss is about, you're in the right place! Context When I write up playthrough 15 of Baldur's Gate…
Minor spoilers follow. If you've never played Baldur's Gate 3 before, you might want to consider not reading this post until after your first playthrough. This post records some notes I made during a conversation with Real Angela. Roughly half-way through the game, characters have the option to gain advanced powers. Of these powers, by far the…
I have a general disclaimer associated with my series of Baldur's Gate 3 posts: Anyone looking for tips how to solo Honor mode is probably looking in the wrong place. For this post, I'm weakening that disclaimer. The disparate topics I'm going to discuss are advanced enough that folks pursuing playthroughs at higher difficulty levels might find…
If you read the title of this post as "46 factorial," you are an amazing human being who deserves to be loved. If you didn't read the title of this post as "46 factorial," you are an amazing human being who deserves to be loved, but you know less math than the category of people listed above.…
Content warning: The story gets dark. That's shown in some of the images, especially those that reflect the relationship between Laurelin and Astarion. If you somehow got to this post directly: This is another post in my BG3 series. I’m not a skilled player. Don’t expect tips for soloing Honor mode. It's both a playthrough write-up and…